Biography
Elora Crawford is an artist, writer and educational researcher from Toronto, Canada. She currently lives in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal where she is pursuing master’s research in the Department of Art Education at Concordia University supported by the Froebel Foundation graduate fellowship. In 2017 she received an honours B.A. in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto.
As an artist and curator, she has shown work and organized art exhibitions in Toronto and Montréal. She has presented workshops and guest lectures in Toronto, Montréal, and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Her work as a writer has been published by C Magazine, Peripheral Review, The Trinity Review, and commissioned for exhibition essays. She worked in communication and education contexts for galleries and museums in Toronto before beginning graduate research in 2021.
Her thesis research at Concordia University explores Froebel’s Gifts and Occupations, the 19th century blocks, play object sets, and craft activities designed alongside the invention of Kindergarten. Her scholarship of Froebelian pedagogy, the art history of kindergarten, and theories and methods of play unfolds through phenomenological and artistic research. Her material practice re-contextualizes childhood, Kindergarten craft and Modernist abstraction through installation, paper-weaving, painting and sculpture.
Contact: elora.crawford@concordia.ca
